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minus-squaredreadedsemi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoThe author calls it JIF. He intended it as Jif because he has butter fingers and like butter brand JIF. I’m used to hard G though.
minus-squareNora@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoAnd British people made English, but they don’t say anything right either.
minus-squaremookulator@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI know he says it’s pronounced “jif”, but I just don’t care. It’s like “gift” without the t
minus-squareEmoDuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoLet’s be honest here, English does not have that level of consistency. “Women” is pronounced with an “i” for christ sake
minus-squarenothing@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoYeah, I always read it as “Jif” then came the correctness police of Reddit and I was bullied into “Gif” by guilt. And now some 8-40 years later, I feel anything but “Gif” is wrong. Help!
minus-squareLemdee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year ago Help! Absolutely not, I don’t say this often but those bullies did the right thing.
The author calls it JIF. He intended it as Jif because he has butter fingers and like butter brand JIF.
I’m used to hard G though.
And British people made English, but they don’t say anything right either.
I know he says it’s pronounced “jif”, but I just don’t care. It’s like “gift” without the t
Let’s be honest here, English does not have that level of consistency. “Women” is pronounced with an “i” for christ sake
Yeah, I always read it as “Jif” then came the correctness police of Reddit and I was bullied into “Gif” by guilt.
And now some 8-40 years later, I feel anything but “Gif” is wrong. Help!
Absolutely not, I don’t say this often but those bullies did the right thing.